Author: Jason

Binocular

I’m participating in an online MOOC course on “How to make a Poem” offered by Manchester City University. There are several hundred participants and 3 professors.  It can get kind of chaotic in the comments section.  ...

The Bald Eagles of Bubble Duff

the jagged claws of the OooLYMPic mountains reach up to yank the solar disk toward it’s evening conclusion. atop a tall and brittle snag the nestlings stir in their rough and temporary abode for this evenings...

Texting vs Talking

Was reading an article recently about dialog communications and how texting has replaced talking in a lot of modern communication. (http://alistapart.com/article/conversational-design) It had an interesting diagram that displayed a time line of human communication going back...

Introduction to Zinc

Zinc felt out of place. He was on an elevator beginning it’s descent from the 24th floor of a nondescript midtown office building, crowded with business people and customers of business people,  He wasn’t interested in...

Hello and Welcome to “Zinc Talk”.

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here” – The Devine Comedy by Dante Alighieri “Cogito, ergo sum” – René Descartes My name is Aubrey and I created Zinc. Zinc started out as a short character description for...

2 Way Speaker Project

      Sometime in high school I developed a fetish for designing and building audio speaker systems. My very first effort was a 3’ high, 2’ wide, 1’ deep plywood box with one 10” driver...

One day over virtual beers… (short fiction)

“What did you do last weekend, @joe2?” asked @Mark “uh, I just dropped into maintenance mode and re-calibrated some visual algorithms”  he lied. No way could he talk about how he actually spent his 4 hours...